Theatre And Change In South Africa

Author : Geoffrey Davis,Anne Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134362974

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Theatre & Change in South Africa by Geoffrey Davis,Anne Fuchs Pdf

First Published in 1997. Can South African theatre continue to maintain its autonomy and exercise its critical role? Can one rethink form and find new content? Can a concept of post-protest theatre be developed? How might theatre contribute to post-apartheid soceity? These are just of the questions addressed in this book. The real and present difficulties South Africian theatre is facing, as well as possible future orientations, are clearly shown, at one of the most complex moments of political transition in the history of the South African society. The authors include contributions from playwrights, actors, visual artists, poets, directors, administrators, critics and theatre academics. Their comments and thoughts portray the active process of reflection and reappraisal, redefining their artistic and political aims, searching for new and vital theatrical forms.

Author : Geoffrey V. Davis,Anne Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3718656507

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Theatre and Change in South Africa by Geoffrey V. Davis,Anne Fuchs Pdf

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Lizbeth Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781135293536

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Wom Pol Perf S/Afr Thtre by Lizbeth Goodman Pdf

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Author : Temple Hauptfleisch,Ian Steadman
Publisher : Haum Educational Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040739216

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South African Theatre by Temple Hauptfleisch,Ian Steadman Pdf

Author : David Bellin Coplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124030805

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In Township Tonight! by David Bellin Coplan Pdf

David B. Coplan's pioneering social history of black South Africa's urban music, dance, and theatre established itself as a classic soon after its publication in 1985. Now completely revised, expanded, and updated, this new edition takes account of developments over the last thirty years while reflecting on the massive changes in South African politics and society since the end of the apartheid era. In vivid detail, Coplan comprehensively explores more than three centuries of the diverse history of South Africa's black popular culture, taking readers from indigenous musical traditions into the world of slave orchestras, pennywhistlers, clergyman-composers, the gumboot dances of mineworkers, and touring minstrelsy and vaudeville acts.

Author : Elizabeth Gunner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1868142140

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Politics and Performance by Elizabeth Gunner Pdf

This volume is a collection of essays that explore aspects of popular culture in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia. These writings examine such topics as the degree of state control over theatre, the interaction - or lack of it - between high and popular culture, the struggle to define meaningful cultural forms in the wake of a dominating and exclusive colonial culture and the contribution of women. What emerges is a strong sense of regional concerns shared by the Southern African cultures under discussion, the contributors also give voice to crucial differences and debates on the nature of contemporary theatre and performance and the links with popular culture, politics and nation.

Author : Mzo Sirayi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781477120828

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South African Drama and Theatre from Pre-colonial Times to the 1990s: An Alternative Reading by Mzo Sirayi Pdf

Mzo Sirayi has embarked on a highly impressive and daring enterprise with the unfl inching boldness of a scholar who is driven by a passionate pursuit to set the record straight. He manages to pull no punches and make no apologies by being true to his convictions, especially within the context of a new South Africa. The book adopts a largely historicized, critical and analytical perspective, which strikingly approximates that of postcolonial theory. — Owen Seda This new and authoritative book is an excellent addition to the few existing books on black South African drama and theatre. South African Drama and Th eatre from Pre-colonial Times to 1990s: An Alternative Reading takes the reader on a tour of the indigenous as well as the modern South African theatre zones. The chapters reverberate with echoes of Africanisation and rock on renaissance waves. This exciting and stimulating book is transparently readable, accessible and is of inestimable value to academics and general readers. — Patrick Ebewo

Author : Alexandra Halligey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000769739

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Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday in South Africa by Alexandra Halligey Pdf

This book explores theatre and performance as participatory research practices for exploring the everyday of the city. Taking an inner-city suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa as its central case study, the book considers how theatre and performance might be both useful practical tools in considering the everyday city, as well as conceptual lenses for understanding it. The author establishes an understanding of space as ever evolving and formed through the ongoing relationship between things, human and non-human, and considers how theatre and performance offer useful paradigms for learning about and working with city spaces. As ephemeral, embodied, material artistic practices, theatre and performance mirror the nature of everyday life. The book discusses theatre and performance games and placemaking processes as offering valuable ways of discovering daily acts of place-making and providing insights that more conventional research methods may not allow. Yet the book also considers how seeing daily city life as a kind of performance, a kind of theatre in its own right, helps to further understandings of city spaces as ever evolving through complex webs of relationships. This book will be of interest to academics, academic practitioners and post-graduate students in the fields of theatre and performance studies, urban studies and cultural geography.

Author : Kene Igweonu,Osita Okagbue
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443859219

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Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 2 by Kene Igweonu,Osita Okagbue Pdf

This book is part of a three-volume book-set published under the general title of Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre. Each of the three books in the set has a unique subtitle that works to better focus its content and differentiates it from the other two volumes. The contributors’ backgrounds and global spread adequately reflect the international focus of the three books that make up the collection. The contributions, in their various ways, demonstrate the many advances and ingenious solutions adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling some of the challenges arising from the adverse colonial experience, as well as the “one-sided” advance of globalisation. The contributions attest to the thriving nature of African theatre and performance, which in the face of these challenges, has managed to retain its distinctiveness, while at the same time acknowledging, contesting, and appropriating influences from elsewhere into an aesthetic that is identifiably African. Consequently, the three books are presented as a comprehensive exploration of the current state of African theatre and performance, both on the continent and diaspora. Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 2: Innovation, Creativity and Social Change contains essays that address performativity as a process, particularly in the context of theatre’s engagement with contemporary realities with the hope of instigating social change. The innovativeness of the examples explored within the book points to the ingenuity and adaptive capacity of African theatre in ways that engage indigenous forms in the service of contemporary realities. Contributions in Innovation, Creativity and Social Change explore forms such as Theatre for Development, community and applied theatre, and indigenous juridical performances, as well as the work of contemporary dramatists and performers who set out to instigate change in society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004414464

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Forays into Contemporary South African Theatre by Anonim Pdf

After the end of Apartheid, South African theatre was characterized by a remarkable process of constant aesthetic reinvention. This multivocal volume documents some of the various ways in which the “rainbow” nation has forged these innovative stage idioms.

Author : Greg Homann,Marc Maufort
Publisher : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Post-apartheid era
ISBN : 2875742531

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New Territories by Greg Homann,Marc Maufort Pdf

In this critical anthology of essays and interviews, some of the world's most respected scholars and practitioners writing and working in the area of South African theatre today share their detailed examinations and insights on the complex and contradictory context of Post-apartheid society.

Author : Goodman L
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135298777

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Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today by Goodman L Pdf

Part two of a three texts compiled during the years of change in South Africa, charts the impact of Apartheid and the cultural boycott on performance, and examining the role of women in theatre. Part two contains interviews with key theatre practitioners.

Author : Patrick J. Ebewo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443891776

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Explorations in Southern African Drama, Theatre and Performance by Patrick J. Ebewo Pdf

In spite of the rich repertoire of artistic traditions in Southern Africa, particularly in the areas of drama, theatre and performance, there seems to be a lack of a corresponding robust academic engagement with these subjects. While it can be said that some of the racial groups in the region have received substantial attention in terms of scholarly discussions of their drama and theatre performances, the same cannot be said of the black African racial group. As such, this collection of thirteen chapters represents a compendium of critical and intellectual discourses on black African drama, theatre and performance in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland. The topics covered in the book include, amongst others, ritual practices, interventionist approaches to drama, textual analyses, and the funeral rites (viewed as performance) of the South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela. The discussions are rooted mainly using African paradigms that are relevant to the context of African cultural production. The contributions here add to the aggregate knowledge economy of Southern Africa, promote research and publication, and provide reading materials for university students specialising in the performing arts. As such, the book will appeal to academics, theatre scholars, cultural workers and arts administrators, arts practitioners and entrepreneurs, the tourism industry, arts educators, and development communication experts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484207

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South African Theatre as/and Intervention by Anonim Pdf

One of the most striking features of cultural life in South Africa has been the extent to which one area of cultural practice - theatre - has more than any other testified to the present condition of the country, now in transition between its colonial past and a decolonized future. But in what sense and how far does the critical force of theatre in South Africa as a mode of intervention continue? In the immediate post-election moment, theatre seemed to be pursuing an escapist, nostalgic route, relieved of its historical burden of protest and opposition. But, as the contributors to this volume show, new voices have been emerging, and a more complex politics of the theatre, involving feminist and gay initiatives, physical theatre, festival theatre and theatre-for-education, has become apparent. Both new and familiar players in South African theatre studies from around the world here respond to or anticipate the altered conditions of the country, while exploring the notion that theatre continues to 'intervene.' This broad focus enables a wide and stimulating range of approaches: contributors examine strategies of intervention among audiences, theatres, established and fledgling writers, canonical and new texts, traditional and innovative critical perspectives. The book concludes with four recent interviews with influential practitioners about the meaning and future of theatre in South Africa: Athol Fugard, Fatima Dike, Reza de Wet, and Janet Suzman.

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139451499

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A History of Theatre in Africa by Martin Banham Pdf

This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora.